UVA GPA - 90% with 4.0 GPA

[Anonymous]

The CDS here indicates 90.5% of applicants had a 4.0 GPA

https://ira.virginia.edu/sites/g/files/jsddwu1106/files/2023-2024%20CDS_FINAL_508.pdf

Does that mean 90% of applicants had a perfect A on all their HS courses? Or is this weighted - so anything above a 4.0 is capped at 4.0?

[Anonymous]

90% had a weighted 4.0.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:90% had a weighted 4.0.

* or more

[Anonymous]

Could be either because not all schools report both weighted and unweighted GPAs on transcripts. Ours only reports weighted....

Adding that we were told by multiple teachers and guidance counselors at the start of middle school (when kids started taking high school credit classes) that UVA expects all As for admission. Never sure how true this was but nearly all the kids repeat this as fact and it seems like most of the admitted kids from our HS all have straight As throughout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The CDS here indicates 90.5% of applicants had a 4.0 GPA

https://ira.virginia.edu/sites/g/files/jsddwu1106/files/2023-2024%20CDS_FINAL_508.pdf

Does that mean 90% of applicants had a perfect A on all their HS courses? Or is this weighted - so anything above a 4.0 is capped at 4.0?

GA with a Trump administration stupidly at its best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could be either because not all schools report both weighted and unweighted GPAs on transcripts. Ours only reports weighted....

Adding that we were told by multiple teachers and guidance counselors at the start of middle school (when kids started taking high school credit classes) that UVA expects all As for admission. Never sure how true this was but nearly all the kids repeat this as fact and it seems like most of the admitted kids from our HS all have straight As throughout.

Come on. You know better than to question whether that's true. Why do you even give these random people a second of your time?

[Anonymous]

Same question as OP. The cds does say on scale of 4.0

But obviously, 90% do not have perfect A’s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The CDS here indicates 90.5% of applicants had a 4.0 GPA

https://ira.virginia.edu/sites/g/files/jsddwu1106/files/2023-2024%20CDS_FINAL_508.pdf

Does that mean 90% of applicants had a perfect A on all their HS courses? Or is this weighted - so anything above a 4.0 is capped at 4.0?

I think weighted. In the past UVA included the average GPA below and it was above 4.0, which to me suggested they were using weighted. UVA didn't include that average GPA in this submission. I looked over at W&M's CDS and it also cites 90% at 4.0 with a 4.4 average GPA.

SCHEV clearly shows weighted with 25th percentile at UVA at 4.2 GPA. So 90% at 4.0 or higher would be consistent with that.

https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp

[Anonymous]

Dean J says they don't bother recalculating because they look at grade trends over GPAs.

https://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-role-of-gpa-in-uva-admission-review.html

[Anonymous]

This does not list an average gpa (section C12) but if you look at previous years where they did give a value, it was always about 4.3, indicating that the value in C11 is weighted.

[Anonymous]

Adding that we were told by multiple teachers and guidance counselors at the start of middle school (when kids started taking high school credit classes) that UVA expects all As for admission.

If you look at your school's naviance you will see that is obviously not true.

[Anonymous]

This is part of the UVA/public school admissions liturgy but definitely not true.

DC is a 1st year at CAS and had 3 Bs at the time of EA application (out of 23 possible grades after 11th grade, including middle school grades that counted for FCPS high school credit) and got in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The CDS here indicates 90.5% of applicants had a 4.0 GPA

https://ira.virginia.edu/sites/g/files/jsddwu1106/files/2023-2024%20CDS_FINAL_508.pdf

Does that mean 90% of applicants had a perfect A on all their HS courses? Or is this weighted - so anything above a 4.0 is capped at 4.0?

That's weighted gpa. Last year's incoming class had a 4.51 at the 75th percentile; 4.38 at the mean and 4.20 at the bottom 25th percentile. SCHEV. Most kids are im the top 5% of their class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDS here indicates 90.5% of applicants had a 4.0 GPA

https://ira.virginia.edu/sites/g/files/jsddwu1106/files/2023-2024%20CDS_FINAL_508.pdf

Does that mean 90% of applicants had a perfect A on all their HS courses? Or is this weighted - so anything above a 4.0 is capped at 4.0?

That's weighted gpa. Last year's incoming class had a 4.51 at the 75th percentile; 4.38 at the mean and 4.20 at the bottom 25th percentile. SCHEV. Most kids are im the top 5% of their class.

Does that mean they had that WGPA with their senior year final grades counted fully, or are those numbers for what was submitted on the application (presumably the WGPA after junior year, or part of senior year?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDS here indicates 90.5% of applicants had a 4.0 GPA

https://ira.virginia.edu/sites/g/files/jsddwu1106/files/2023-2024%20CDS_FINAL_508.pdf

Does that mean 90% of applicants had a perfect A on all their HS courses? Or is this weighted - so anything above a 4.0 is capped at 4.0?

That's weighted gpa. Last year's incoming class had a 4.51 at the 75th percentile; 4.38 at the mean and 4.20 at the bottom 25th percentile. SCHEV. Most kids are im the top 5% of their class.

Does that mean they had that WGPA with their senior year final grades counted fully, or are those numbers for what was submitted on the application (presumably the WGPA after junior year, or part of senior year?)

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